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Lens Culture

LensCulture Recommendations: Photo Festivals & Photo Fairs 2024

LensCulture’s Big List of International Photo Festivals & Photo Fairs points you to the best photo events around the world. It’s a great way to plan for travel and visual inspiration.

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A Place Called Home

Can art help shape the way communities interact? In Jaskirt Dhaliwal-Boora’s powerful new work, young women and their families open about the effects of generational trauma and gendered violence.

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Ghosts in the Field

Capturing the devastation caused by a plant pathogen on the ancient olive trees of Salento, Italy, Murray Ballard’s project traces the impact on the region’s past, present and future.

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Onironautica

Diving deep into the world of lucid dreaming through a variety of ancient and contemporary practices, Ludovica De Santis intricately crafts weird and wonderful images fished from her subconscious.

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Black and White War

Describing his work as “visual poetry,” this Czech photographer’s ongoing work in Ukraine evokes the emotional experience of everyday life during war.

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My Sweet Elora

Following a family secret from Belgium to Canada, Luuk van Raamsdonk embarks on an emotional journey, piecing together questions of identity, inheritance, and interpersonal dynamics that bridge past and present.

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Re: Touch, the Arithmetics of Distance

Artistic experiments using antique photo retouching inks and old slide film shimmer with serendipity and new meaning years after they were created and stored away.

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Beggar’s Honey

This cunning photobook delves into the realm of click farms, revealing how digital addiction and the manipulation of social media content shape our perceptions, challenging the viewer to reconsider the ethical implications of our online engagements.

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British Journal of Photography
Working-class photographers start their UK tour in Coventry

Working-class photographers start their UK tour in Coventry

A new travelling exhibition explores what it means to be a working-class photographer documenting the working-class experience in post-Thatcher Britain
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British Journal of Photography
Tokyo drift: In the studio with Johny Pitts

Tokyo drift: In the studio with Johny Pitts

From Sheffield to Peckham via Japan, the artist is tireless in his search for life in all its complexity. His next journey is to the heart of ‘future nostalgia’. We catch up with him at his London studio
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British Journal of Photography
‘Ray’s a Laugh’ continues to court controversy

‘Ray’s a Laugh’ continues to court controversy

A new version of Richard Billingham’s pioneering family project raises the same old questions around access, class and sensation
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British Journal of Photography
The NPG’s Sabina Jaskot-Gill: ‘We’re a living, working collection’

The NPG’s Sabina Jaskot-Gill: ‘We’re a living, working collection’

Ahead of a new show pairing Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron, we get to know the National Portrait Gallery’s senior curator of photographs
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British Journal of Photography
In Beirut, solar panels and water tanks tell a story of decline

In Beirut, solar panels and water tanks tell a story of decline

Dia Mrad’s people-free photographs capture the resourcefulness of the Beirut population
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British Journal of Photography
How to make a collaborative photobook on autism

How to make a collaborative photobook on autism

With over 100,000 people awaiting an autism diagnosis in the UK, Harley Bainbridge spent time with one family navigating the highs and lows of the system
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British Journal of Photography
Feminism’s lost decade? Artists reflect on today’s turbulent politics

Feminism’s lost decade? Artists reflect on today’s turbulent politics

Featuring artists from across the world, this south London show surveys lens-based activism beyond straight documentary
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British Journal of Photography
A grandma’s advice: ‘Ignore the negative thoughts, life is hard enough anyway’

A grandma’s advice: ‘Ignore the negative thoughts, life is hard enough anyway’

Lucija Rosc’s new project aims to capture her elder mentor’s creativity through collage and jokes
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Magnum Photos

Aid Airdrops Over Gaza, Documented by Moises Saman

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Theatre of War, A Photo Essay by Sabiha Çimen

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In Memoriam: Inge Bondi (1925–2024)

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Olay, the Debut Photobook by Emin Özmen

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Desert, Fire, Flood by Zied Ben Romdhane

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Peter van Agtmael: A Decade of Documenting Israel and Palestine

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Three Voices From Palestine Curated by Myriam Boulos

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From the Archive: Israel and Palestine

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ASBX
Yoshi Yubai – Asakusa

Yoshi Yubai – Asakusa

I recently came across Yoshi Yubai’s work. I was fortunate enough to nab a copy of his last book, Radiation Inspiration (2023), published by La Generale Minerale (screenprinted by Ben Sanair), which I purchased through Le Plac’Art Photo in Paris. The screen printing by Sanair in that book is phenomenal. The book has an introduction […]

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Interview with Hristina Tasheva

Interview with Hristina Tasheva

Hristina Tasheva’s newest book, Far Away From Home: The Voices, the Body and the Periphery (Self-published, 2023), is an ambitious attempt at mapping the disparities between two national experiences of Communism in the twentieth century — the Dutch and the Bulgarian — as they were impacted by the rise and fall of Nazi Germany. The […]

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Tommaso Protti – Terra Vermelha

Tommaso Protti – Terra Vermelha

    I had to take a bit of time to digest this book. I remember receiving it before the end of the year and being genuinely overwhelmed with it for a few different reasons that I will outline here. I think the feeling of being overwhelmed first stemmed from the photographs being of an […]

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Mark Steinmetz – France 1987

Mark Steinmetz – France 1987

I’m still determining who needs to hear this, but Mark Steinmetz remains one of the most profound voices in the rising tide of what I suggest is a revisiting of humanism in photography. Given the clamor and tumult of the past years, it is not a surprise that work like Mark’s, which, at its base, […]

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Yelena Yemchuk – Odesa

Yelena Yemchuk – Odesa

Growing up in the capital city of Kyiv in the late 1970s, Yelena Yemchuk felt inexplicably drawn to Odesa, a city recognized for its independence and defiance to Soviet control. Visiting for the first time in 2003, decades after immigrating to America in 1981, Yemchuk returned in 2015 with the objective of developing a photographic […]

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Wouter Van de Voorde – Nucleo

Wouter Van de Voorde – Nucleo

Nucleo is the newest in a series of remarkable books by Belgian artist Wouter Van de Voorde. Living in Canberra, Australia, for a sizable number of years (the Belgian/Aussie accent is a thing to behold), Wouter has been consistently and obsessively photographing his local landscape, family, and whatever bramble or dilapidated structures he can find. […]

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Laura San Segundo – El Recinto Circular

Laura San Segundo – El Recinto Circular

The world as will. And representation. Time is a flat circle, The Returnal, Cosmic materiality, and our conceptual place within it. Quantum feelings, quantum seeing. Numerous artists have grappled with our place within the sublime, rotating blue rock we call home as it spins through the vast cosmos, manacled to a bright ball of fiery […]

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
The Most Beautiful Place in the World

The Most Beautiful Place in the World

Contemporary Slovenian photography, or at least the selected fragment of it was presented to the domestic public in another exhibition of the Croatian Photographic Union, this time held in KlovićeviDvori. The curator, Sandra KrižićBoban moves the focus from the domestic art scene to the neighboring scene, the Slovenian scene, creating a collaboration with Gallery Fotografija…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Faces of Time

Faces of Time

In 1929, German photographer August Sander (1876-1964) published a book with sixty photographs portraying the people of his time. In genre terms, one might call these photographs portraits which either show individual persons, or several of them set in the same environment. It is clear that each person is aware that he / she is…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Somewhere

Somewhere

She began at this time to describe landscape as if anything she saw was a natural phenomenon, a thing existent in itself, and she found it, this exercise, very interesting and it finally led her to the later series of Operas and Plays. I am trying to be as commonplace as I can be, she used to…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Media-logged journey– pleasures and asceticism of transcendence

Media-logged journey– pleasures and asceticism of transcendence

Media-logged journey as transcendence of “the imminent conditions of consciousness” and the naïve art-phenomenology of “reality” Đukić versus Altamira and On Kawara Assuming reality is real, its media-trace/manifestation are also real. The significance of the media-projected reality uncovers itself through strengthening the awareness of necessity to transcend the realistic ideology frame. It is exactly this…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Constructing an identity through the family archive  / Archon of the family heritage

Constructing an identity through the family archive / Archon of the family heritage

Where does the need to build an identity by reconstructing a family history come from? What is it in the past that is so strong that we could possibly rely on in an attempt to define our own existence?  Are we looking for an explanation? For reasons? Justification?  Or are we simply denying our own…

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Suvremena hrvatska fotografija
Davor Sanvincenti’s Fringe Oscillations

Davor Sanvincenti’s Fringe Oscillations

Davor takes interest in the fringe fields of light. What does he find in them? Fringe frequencies? But there is no such a thing, cause frequencies always move on, metamorphosing from visible to invisible, from light to sound and, further down to the oscillations that make up the universe. The given possibilities of our perceptions…

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